Produced by Curtis Weyant, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's Note | | | | Special characters: This UTF-8 text file uses the following | | special characters: | | α δ ε η ι λ μ ν ο π ρ ς σ τ φ Ἡ ϛ | | ☾ ♃ ♄ ♅ ♆ ♈ ⊿ ′ ″ ⅓ œ | | If these do not display, you may prefer to use the HTML version | | which provides mouse-hovers for the more unusual characters, or | | the ISO-8859-1 text which transliterates them. | | | | Printer errors: Obvious typographical errors in the original | | have been corrected in this version, and full details of the | | corrections can be found in the HTML version of this ebook. | | However, the inconsistent spelling of Ottawa/Ottowa, and the | | inconsistent use of comma or full-stop as thousands separators | | has been left as in the original. The value given for the | | eccentricity of Uranus may also be a printer error. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ OUTLINES OF A MECHANICAL THEORY OF STORMS, CONTAINING THE TRUE LAW OF LUNAR INFLUENCE, WITH PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE NAVIGATOR, TO ENABLE HIM APPROXIMATELY TO CALCULATE THE COMING CHANGES OF THE WIND AND WEATHER, FOR ANY GIVEN DAY, AND FOR ANY PART OF THE OCEAN. BY T. BASSNETT. Ἡ δε μεσοτης εν πασιν ασφαλεϛερα NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY, AND 16 LITTLE BRITAIN, LONDON. 1854. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by T. BASSNETT, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York. CONTENTS. SECTION FIRST.